Arts and Recreation around the Bay Area

Avid hiker and experienced travel writer Ann Marie Brown
knows the best places to hike in the San Francisco Bay Area, from oceanfront
and mountain trails to scenic walks through wine country. This fourth edition
of Moon 101 Great Hikes of the San Francisco Bay Area includes a new hiking
tips section, updated trail maps for each hike, new chapter maps with sites
plotted by region, and a new resources section.

Timothy Pfleuger designed the Castro Theatre and was one of San Francisco’s most prolific architects. Poletti surveys Pflueger's career and work starting with his San Francisco roots and continuing with his apprenticeship with J. R. Miller through the end of his prolific career.

Featuring more than fifty artworks from the mid-1800s to the present, all from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Artistic San Francisco celebrates the sites and experiences of this extraordinary city through the eyes of the artists while providing a rare opportunity to witness the city's many changes over the past century and a half.

Written in entertaining prose, the book is as much an enjoyable story to be reread through the years as it is a factual account of the events that brought the elusive title of World Series Champions to the Giants.

Veteran graffiti writers SFaustina and
Jocelyn Superstar have collaborated on a history of the graffiti scene in the
San Francisco Bay area from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. The result of
their collaboration, Bay Area Graffiti: 80--90 , provides a glimpse into street
art history that is seldom seen: one that is authored by a pair of writers who
have 40 years of graffiti experience between them and provides an insider's
view on history and relevance of graffiti.

In September of 2008 the new science museum opened its doors to a line of people over a mile long. The building, designed by Piano Renzo includes a living roof, an indoor rainforest and every attempt to be in harmony with its surroundings. This book is a celebration of this museum.

This book presents the lives, careers, and work of fifty largely unknown pioneers. It chronicles the triumphs and challenges these path-breaking women faced in their pursuit of entering and claiming space in the male-dominated field of architecture.

Looking back over the past one hundred years, the contributors to this in-depth survey consider the diverse range of artists who have been influenced by the region's compelling unions of water and land, peaks and valleys, and ever-changing fog and mist-filtered light.

Looks at a broad swath of our City’s musical life in the first half of the 20th century through the formation of institutions of the Symphony, Opera and Conservatory, in tandem with issues of government support, labor relations and racial discrimination.

This beautifully illustrated centennial history of the Symphony uses archives and interviews to relate the achievements of our world-class orchestra, casting them both in terms of our City’s history and amazing social and technological changes of the past century.

Whether you aim to capture breathtaking photos of the majestic Golden Gate Bridge, crooked Lombard Street, infamous Alcatraz, or unique Victorian homes, this portable resource goes where you go and walks you through valuable tips and techniques for taking the best shot possible.

The expanded and revised third edition of a
popular visual collection, San Francisco Bay Area Murals captures the mural
movement in all its rich detail. These remarkably expressive works of street
art are meticulously captured and reviewed by a longtime scholar and aficionado
of murals.

This catalog accompanies the 75th anniversary exhibit at SFMOMA. This book includes fabulous images from the over 400 artworks shown as well as essays and stories that reveal the history of the museum.

Showcases the sights, rides, and attractions of this ocean front recreation destination during the first half of the twentieth century. There is a large collection of black and white photographs detailing the construction of the structures, citizens at play, and the behind the scenes work involved in running a major amusement center

In a new book on the "signature" styles of Bay Area architecture, author and architecture critic Dave Weinstein takes aim at some of the most important yet lesser-known Bay Area architects. Names include Ernest Coxhead, Leola Hall, and Warren Callister.